Dr. Robert H. Schnarrs, MD

About Dr. Schnarrs

Schnarrs earned a Bachelor of Science in pre-medicine from Pennsylvania State University, then his medical degree from Pennsylvania State University's Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. He completed general surgery training at Western Pennsylvania Hospital in Pittsburgh. He then completed a plastic surgery residency and a fellowship in oculoplastic, orbital and aesthetic surgery, both completed at the same Norfolk institution. In 1991 he joined the Hampton Roads area as a full-time faculty member in plastic surgery at Eastern Virginia Medical School, also serving as assistant residency program director.

His practice focuses predominantly on cosmetic plastic surgery and reconstructive breast surgery, and he has earned regional recognition for his work reconstructing breasts affected by congenital anomalies or removed due to cancer.

In 2019, he was appointed by Chesapeake City Council to the Chesapeake Hospital Authority, an 11-member board overseeing Chesapeake Regional Healthcare, for a term through January 2023. He co-authored a peer-reviewed study on complication rates with human acellular dermal matrices, based on work at the Hague Center for Cosmetic and Plastic Surgery, and appeared in a 2018 television segment discussing cosmetic surgery options available there. He has co-authored research published in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Global Open and Microsurgery.